Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 110
Not like the many other towns, crowded with heavy stone houses, stiff and foreign looking.
Who acts: you · What happens: not like, look · To what, where: many other towns
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 like | advmod |
| 2 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 towns | det |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 towns | amod |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 towns | amod |
| 6 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 like | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 crowded | punct |
| 8 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 towns | amod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 houses | case |
| 10 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 houses | amod |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 houses | compound |
| 12 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crowded | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stiff | punct |
| 14 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 looking | compound |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 foreign | cc |
| 16 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stiff | conj |
| 17 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 crowded | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | imperative | you not said here | the many other towns | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot town=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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